Both the money plants look gorgeous, I don’t know anything about what they’re supposed to look like but to me, ‘messy’ looking plants are beautiful, let them be wild!
Can't believe you don't like your Chinese Money plant. I got mine half dead and revived it. Right now, it's flourishing next to my window. Yes, it grows leggy, but it's still beautiful.
Now that I am an empty nester I have been obsessed with my houseplants. Your channel is way too interesting and thus I am running out of room with new plants and propagating ones.
The delightful, rambling way you present your films, showing us all your fabulous babies and chatting about their quirks, is so friendly and laid back ☺ Your house is so pretty and sparkling clean.... which is why I snorted tea down my nose when you mentioned your Venus Flytrap died... No wonder; there cannot be a single fly to be trapped 🤭
Hi, Ron here in the US. I grow alot of house plants. I have been taking care of an Oxalis that an Aunt gave me for 25 years. Fantastic plant I have learned some things: Transplant only a FEW tubers into a bigger pot, pointy end up. Enough for the coverage you want. It is very prolific and will spread on its own.You won't have to transplant again for a few years. Dry the extra then put your excess tubers in a paper bag. They last forever. I start smaller pots to give to friends or sell them You said you were just coming into spring. Take the scissors to everything growing in that pot. Oxalis is perrenial. It gets scaggly in winter. It will start to regrow in a week or so. Keep them moist. Move it to a sunny location The more sun and light, the less floppy it is and will have shorter leaf stems. It will tolerate direct Sun, even all day, but you sacrifice having the leaves open until the direct sun moves away. I'm sure you know the leaves close at night. They also will close during the day if the plant is unhappy or stressed (needs water, etc.and in hot direct sun). Great channel.
I’ve got a 47 year old croton, which touches the ceiling, more a tree now rather than a house plant. It’s been in many situations, cold, shady full sun and it’s just got on with it.
My grandma has the most beautiful and big fern I’ve seen in a home and she doesn’t even research what to do for it (she has had it for a couple years and it’s been thriving the whole time)
Thanks for your ranking tour. We all have our personal loves/hates with plants, and I get what you like and don't like. I'd like to comment on the issue of light: Most 'house' plants are, of course, semi-tropical or tropical plants. One must keep in mind plants that grow in the tropics (that is, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn) do not experience great variation in day length, like plants from temperate zones. What they do experience in Nature is dry/wet seasons. Some will go dormant periodically, and some actually must have a dormant period. So...if you try to grow them in northern latitudes without supplementing the light in the winter, they're going to struggle. If it's a plant that needs to periodically go dormant, you just have to let it do its thing, knowing it will come roaring back come spring. If you accept the natural growth habits of the plant in question, your life with plants will be much more rewarding. Tradescantias, for example, I think of as the perfect plant for surgeons...cut, cut, cut...(that's the punchline to a joke I won't tell here). If you cut the damned thing back it won't get all scraggly and ugly. That being said, I've got a plain green one that's in a four inch pot and it's run all over a 6'x6' shelving unit, and still looks nice and green. It's not spectacular, but it does add to the jungle look. I've become convinced the only way to grow truly great philodendrons, monsteras and pothos is with a sphagnum moss pole. They want to climb something like a tree, and they are in many cases using those trees and those big aerial roots to get water and nutrition. I've seen monsteras in Florida climb thirty feet into a live oak tree. Thanks for all your great videos. Your tip on using aquarium conditioner in your watering to stop 'crispy' leaves works. My spider and calathea now produce lovely green leaves with no potato chips!
💯 correct on trying to grow tropical plants in a new environment! I do plants, hubby- fish...in the midwest! -We have to remind ourselves not to be soooo harsh on ourselves!!!!!
@@Puppies-Plants-Politics I also have to encourage plant lovers not to obsess over 'perfection'. Plants don't freak out over a bad leaf or two... getting to know each one will tell you if it's sick or just doing what plants do.
Once i bought 3 "string of..." cuttings from a seller on etsy, all aboit 3 or 4 cms each. Hearts, pearls, turtles. I was a plant newbie at the time and all the cuttings died before they rooted. EXCEPT my brave little string of hearts. Years later and she's still going strong (several metres long, her own offcuts rooting nicely elsewhere too) and she wont stop flowering! I'm in london so not a super different climate from you. But ive found the cuttings really take root well in a moss/perlite mix, covered with clingfilm (w a couple of small holes for ventilation) and kept moist. An established plant though can handle being underwatered!
Thanks for the entertaining video :) The only Alocasia which I know that never loses its foliage even in Central European winter under standard home conditions and is very easy to care for while stunningly beautiful is the Alocasia "Red Secret", absolutely gorgeous one! They are quite common and inexpensive, I got mine at some garden center 3 years ago and it keeps on living its best life while not requiring any attention or "special treatment" like most other Alocasias I tried (and hated/killed...) over the years. Highly recommend! ❤
Ive learned so much thankyou. I was diagnosed with Lymphoma and made a tropical freshwater fish plant room. With a goldfish pond and plants. I killed every alocatia. Thank you for helping me choose plants that i can succeed with
A couple years ago, I would have agreed with you on the ZZ, but since I rehabbed one recently, as well as got a Black Raven (that was half rotting in the store which I'm also rehabilitating), I would say that ZZ belongs in B tier. The stalks and leaves add a nice contrast to a collection, and when some of the stalks - like yours - don't grow straight up, the plant looks very whimsical and expressive.
My purple shamrock is about 4 yrs old and is definitely an S. I wrap paper around the whole plant to repot. I pull a few leaves out here and there and she will shoot out a bunch more. Also pull the flowers out when they start to die and it continues to flower. She has had flowers every single day since I got her.
In my experience Fittonias died on me until I put one into a terrarium that I had. I know this is a bit out there but I now keep my Fittonia mother plant in the largest zip lock bags front IKEA. They need crazy amounts of humidity & the zip lock bag was the answer. I also have an other plant that’s much larger in one of the zip lock bags that’s supposed to be used for vacuum sealing a double duvets. Both plants are doing well & condensation forming on the inside of the bags. I open the bags now & again to give them a change of air.
This is a really helpful video! Thanks for doing all that work. My ZZ plant, which I named Rich after you due to you helping me with the watering advice, is doing really well. I think it's still fairly young (having gotten it at IKEA in Feb) and has continued to grow new leaves. It has a ways to go to look as large as yours, but it's perfect in its little low-light spot for the foreseeable future. 🌿
Hello, this ranking really helped me as I am just starting out and I don't want to struggle with hard to keep plants right off the get go. Thanks so much. Love and Peace.
I have a Philodendron new red which was growing aggressively and out of control, which I got under control with wall mounted3m Command hooks andgarden ties. Its now growing the way I want it to.
I've just moved from a house with a big garden to an apartment with a small balcony and im grieving somewhat. But finding your channel has really lifted my spirits and introduced me to a whole new world of houseplants!! Thank you, Richard!! I brought my favourite Fatsia with me and am trying to acclimatise it to the indoors. Have you ever grown one successfully indoors?
Mr Sheffield 🌱 I'm not too far away from you in the UK and String of Hearts does pretty well for me. Got it next to a grow light now but used to have it in a North Facing window and it was always growing & blooming. I'd recommend putting it in a normal sized plant pot, as I've noticed quite a lot of people plant them in shallow bowls but, they have a decent sized root system. Just use the taco test on the leaves to see when they need to be watered, which is not too often, and lay off watering big time in the winter as they rot easily 🌱😊🌱
The purple pallida or Purple Heart here in the states I got as a cutting from my mom who got it from her mom 6 years ago and now I have lots and lots of them cuz it crawled out of the pot and rooted in the ground outside. I have taken cuttings and now it’s all over my landscape as a ground cover. It dies back in the winter and sprouts back out in the spring here in zone 8
That was fun! You're a brave man; I won't have any Alocasias or Calatheas in my house. I washed my hands of them a long time ago! I'm also a big fan of Pothos (the one you showed us is a Marble Queen-I have two of them), and I have about six Golden Pothos, as they grow so well and look lovely all lined up in a row on a shelf My Philodendron Birkin is actually looking fab (so far!), and I agree about the Tiniki; I have 2, and they are beautiful and easy. One of my absolute favourite plants is my Tradescantia Nanouk - what a stunner - and I have just bought 3 more different types. For impact, my Kentia Palm looks incredible in my living room with an uplight casting stunning shadows on the ceiling in the evening. PS: I didn't notice your asparagus fern?
This was fun to watch! It was quite interesting which ones you picked as your favorites. I tend to lean on plants that give me the LEAST trouble, so MY S list are undoubtedly the ZZ plant, snake plants, rubber tree plants, and pothos plants. Interesting that you didn't feature any common Dracaenas (I have one that is over 40 years old that has been propagated numerous times). The tradescantia plants are an absolutely nightmare for me, lol! Other nightmares have been allocasia or calathea ( you have tremendous patience). Thanks for the video. :)
I agree with putting echeveria into B class. I have several. Easy to take care of, but meh. I have a fern about the same size as yours. Looks great and takes little care.
Great vid! So informative as well as it teaches a lot about your plants and their behaviors Some random thoughts: My Pilea mother plant, I keep it in a bright place where I dont see it often 😂 (and otherwise care for it well). I do however take out a babyplant every now and then and put it somewhere where I see it often, since the babys look quite cute for a while. Also if you chop the top off the bald stemmed Pilea, the bottom starts branching out all over, and the top can be propagated into a new non-bare stemmed plant. They are a bit annoying when they throw a fit, but also have options! My string of heart seems to like higher humidity, growlight brightness and even constantly moist (not soggy) soil, its doing quite well and some strings are well over 2 meters long. While it still throws a fit every now and then and drops a few leaves, it also flowers most of the time. I recently started a second one from cuttings… in a growtent (very bright, super high humidity). It is now rooted well and starts to grow out strings. For the leggy Dieffenbachia… maybe propagate? Or put some cute low bushy plants in front of the leggy stems? Verrucosum: maybe put more than one plant onto the pole so that it will become more filled out?
the first time I saw your green orange plant, I started looking for one. I found one a couple of weeks ago - I love it! Stunning plant. Good to know about grow lights. I do love ZZ plants. I have a raven and a regular one too.
*I hang my string of hearts in a W window & it's grown down to the windowsill in a couple of months as well as flowers every year. It is rather water hungry for a semi-succulent during the growing season. I care for it the way I do my Lipstick plant but the SOH usually wants more water in the summer where I'm at (PA) *over summer put your Hoya outside on a covered porch. The UV light + heat/humidity outside help mine bloom * the "orange green plant" is a Mandarin or Fire Flash Spider Plant. I struggle with mine too but those stems keep preventing me from tossing it. Colorful or patterned stem plants look so good on a higher up shelf/book stand. * Rhizomeous Begonia for me stay neater. I can't remember the last time I removed a leaf other than to propagate it (once it was acclimated to my house anyway). They stay more compact too so more tuck in around other plant friendly. Would enjoy living next to you P. Santorini for example. *Calathea & agalonema I struggle with
Awesome tour thank you. You could combine a raven with existing zz to make it more interesting. The first time I saw a zz I was amazed by the shiny leaves and thought it would be easy to look after but I over watered it and it died of root rot but I collected some leaves and a top stem and propagated new plants
I have a Hoya which is over 30 years old. It flowers multiple times each year and have found that neglect has kept it small but the flowers are abundant. I haven't feed or watered it much until finding your channel.. I'm feeding and watering it now to see what difference it makes
I had one before that sat on my staircase window & I both bloomed & was happy. I moved & it just died. I bought another one, put it in the same kind of light situation & it has never flowed at all. I was thinking of giving it some kind of feed but a concerned that I kill it. What a dilemma 🫣
I love my Chinese money plant! The circular explosion of round leaves makes me smile! Also, because of you, i bought a birkin. Although some of the lower smaller leaves are just green, shes flourishing like crazy! I live in Ontario, Canada, so I'll have to put her under grow lights this winter so she doesnt fully revert to green. Ive got it planted in an aroid mix and she loves it!
Loved this! And you dont pluck off yellow leaves before showing them. Of course we differ on which ones we've fallen in love with and those rascals we hoped to be friendly but denied us.
I, too, dislike Chinese money plant. I can grow in water but not anymore soil. I gave my daughter the cuttings and they now live in her aquarium! I have the original plant on my porch in full sun, and it has produced more leaves. Of course, my husband waters it everyday. I live in Tennessee and it is very hot this year. I really enjoy you videos. Thank you!😊
I’ve recently had a lot of success with my string of hearts plants! I’m in London, so similar conditions to you and after some trial and error I’ve managed to get them growing brilliantly! I have one (a variegated one) on a mantelpiece, trailing over the edge, about 2 meters away from an east facing window. My other two (normal ones) I have on high shelves of my book case, about 3 meters away from a south facing window. I water them about once a month and am constantly having to trim them as a couple of them keep reaching the floor (from two meters up)! They grow like absolute weeds for me now and although occasionally I’ve had problems with bare looking stems, I just cut it back to before that point and it grows back brilliantly. I use an aquarium water conditioner too, except I use one called prime by seachem. They also seem to like the seaweed baby bio fertiliser although I use it very rarely. They are still an absolute pain to untangle however they do look amazing when they’re happy! One of them is in my zoom background (when I’m working from home) and I’ve got many compliments on it! They are definitely S tier plants for me now, after years of trial and (mostly) error. Definitely worth it in my opinion though, they look amazing when mature, flowing down from a high shelf, especially when they occasionally reward you with little flowers! String of pearls however… I cannot for the life of me keep them alive!
What a great comment! I absolutely love string of hearts plants but have never had any success.. 🤦🏻♀️ Although I live in Italy so a different climate, your comment inspires me to try again.. I just love the idea of them growing like weeds.. thanks! 👍
Great video. Very helpful. I thought you were going to go though all your plants which have made for a long video but enjoyable one. I bought a few plants for my birthday yesterday. One was a peace lily that is blooming. I asked the lady I bought it from if it will bloom again. But she said it might and gave it extra fertilizer for free. Wonderful 😊 can’t wait for your next video.
I actually like the Pilea (Chinese Money Plant), I got mine from the receptionist at my job. Her's is at work and we're many floors up in a glass building. It's so full and large, but I suspect the lighting has a lot to do with it.
In the U.K. - There are two plants that I really have success with - dieffenbachias and syngoniums. Because I also have an interest in aquascaping I learned that they can both live in a riparian environment (roots submerged and leaves above water). I simply pot them up like any other plant but keep them literally saturated with water. This seems to slow down the loss of lower leaves on dieffenbachias a lot, but if a stem does get leggy, I just cut it down and trim the top part then stuff it in the mud next to it's old stem (both should send out new growth) or, if I want a new plant, root it in water and then pot it. My syngoniums just romp away in their sodden mud and seem very happy. Both plants seem to do well with grow lights as I am in a basement flat, so have little choice!
I totally agree on all the C group,I have the same issues with mine. With the Chinese money plant, I chop the top off and stick it straight into soil it looks much fuller.the purple oxalis is same as yours and every other one that I’ve seen,it’s just it’s growth habit. Love your Coleus,I’ve been meaning to ask you every time it’s in the background. Great video 💚🪴🌿
One of my new favorites is aglaenema . There are so many varieties & kind of low maintenance. Love my pepperonia & it's low maintenance. Other favs... shamrocks ( though they seem to like more sun than the tags says ). Money tree , once I came to realize it likes it's roots cozy. Love the Mandarin orange spider ( think you called it green orange) once I learned how to make it happy .
I love to see how different we all are! ❤ I personally do not care for alocasias or philodendron, but I deeply adore my collection of calatheas! Specifically the orbifolia and the roseopicta, those are my two S-class plants 😊 Not saying I'll be able to keep all of my 6 calatheas alive, but at this point I have started seeing them as long-lasting "flower bouqets" instead of short-lasting house plants, and so it's fine for me if one or two die every year 😅 Also really happy with my chinese money plant, I just cut it off at the bottom once it gets too long and leggy, and enjoy the babies until the circle starts again 😊
My peperomia raindrop is thriving in a southern window in my sunroom in sunny California. Unless it is shock, it probably isn’t too much sun. Maybe it got a bit overwatered or repotted too frequently? They hate being repotted and mine has been in the same pot more than a decade. They are an easy plant here because they like the dry, but probably more challenging in your damp climate. BTW, they are super easy to propagate from a node, a leaf, or even half a leaf, so you can easily make a back up copy or add cuttings to make it bushier. It also bounces back nice from pruning.
I agree with you on the zebrina and the oxalis. I love both of them but I have a difficult time getting them to consistently look nice. Yours look great!
Lovely video - I agree with you on most of your rankings, except I do love my gigantic ZZ plant. Completely agree on your assessment of string of hearts - way too fussy. I avoid any “string of” plants. You should get a philodendron micans - pretty velvety (not showy) leaves , climbs like a pothos and pretty easy to care for.
FYI the correct name for the Tradescantia showen is actually Lisa, and it is a cultivar of Tradescantia mundula. Unfortunately many Tradescantias are mislabeled mainly for commercial purpose.
We are in the USA too and I only buy them for my window boxes for the summer. The greenhouses start to carry them in early Spring for planting outside. Maybe this year I will keep one for the inside.
I was just about to take note of that plant to buy for my collection, but think I may not due to your comment. Not keen on having a 7 foot tall plant to care for.
Hi Mr. Sheffield Didn’t quite agree with some of your ratings but enjoyed and watched the whole video 😁. I was curious why you don’t keep more begonias - maculata; angel wing etc. They’re gorgeous and easy to grow and also treat you with lovely little flowers
String of hearts is the easiest ever. But it needs LOTS of sunlight. It grows really fast too. And it's very easy to multiply : just cut a bit and plant it directly. No need to water too much, but sunlight is not negociable. Suspend it on the top of your windows, and in a few months you'll get very long strings. Easily goes to 2m long. But these strings will die away in winter without a growth light.
Thank you for this! Great video! I LOVE “String of …” plants. Theres something so beautiful about the way they trail. I have two String of Hearts plants but got my first String of Pearls yesterday as a present - I’ve wanted one for so long and so I’m really excited to look after it and learn what it likes :)
Thank you! I had misidentified my new plant. According this video it is a green syngonium. I thought it was some kind of alocasia. Sounds like syngonium will be better plants in the winter months.
Quite a nice collection.going to get a nepenthes. I do not understand the Birkin problem....mine is in aroid soil and gets a huge amount of light. Fertilize every month in Summer.
I've recently put my string of hearts cuttings, after rooting them ever so slightly in water, in leca and they love it. I was surprised that it can be grown in leca with a reservoir, but so far it's not complaining and pushing out new growth. S Tier for me and my collection would be: Philodendron Plowmanii (took a while until it adapted to pon but now it's growing so fast) Monstera Thai Constellation Alocasia Regal shield (got a 50cm leaf the other day, love it) Philodendron Billietiae (sturdy, a long boi) D Tier would be: Philodendron Burgundy princess (got it as a freebie, that's how bad this thing grows) Raphidophora decursiva (would be A Tier but it's currently only producing runners after 6 months of nothing) Monstera Adansonii (the thing always gets Thrips and looses all it's leaves)
I enjoyed this, Mr Sheffield. I am largely in agreement with your ratings except maybe the fern. I love them but I am always cleaning up after them. Like they’re not very well house trained…
I love that the marble queen pothos is one of your faves.. I agree with the Chinese Money plant… mine lulled me into a false sense of security. It was huge and then just died for seemingly no reason :/ I’ve added a couple of extra plants to my Wishlist for when I get my current collection down to more manageable numbers
Excellent video! It would be helpful in learning light requirements if you would mention which direction the windows are facing. Easiest plant ever is the Christmas cactus…the less attention I give it the more often it is covered in flowers.
I absolutely loved this fun video, Mr Sheffield.. 👍You have such a fab collection! Great nepenthes (growing soooo beautifully, I adore it) and that's a stunning red coleus.. 🥰 Your Echeveria looks a bit tall.. (7:08) it's definitely seeking more light.. I do love these succulents (and their flowers are so pretty) but they need to stay flat in rosette form to be more pleasing to the eye.. and that means plenty of sunlight! 🤗 They do better outdoors.. just my opinion.. I have always loved the look of Chinese money plants.. our local bar has a beautiful one.. I took a cutting but had no luck at all.. As for strings of _anything,_ I have no luck either..🤦🏻♀️😆 Great vlog! Thank you, Richard..
💕 I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE CHINESE MONEY PLANT!!!! 🪴😍💕 (…also nicknamed: UFO Plant!)💗🛸 👽🪴 I had one last summer. Instead of using soil, I planted it in teeny tiny slate pebbles and let it sit outside on the patio where there was plenty of warmth and sunlight. It THRIVED🤩🌞🪴🤩 in the sun!!!! It only needed watering when the pebbles were dry. You can definitely get away with just filling the watering tray to water it that way. Just be careful not to leave it (or forget it’s outside) if you live in a climate with a winter season. I forgot to pull my plants 🪴 in before the first frost because our autumn felt like summer last year with 70-80 degree heat, so I didn’t feel a rush to move them inside. The first cold snap we had snuck up on me one week before Thanksgiving! Lol, I was devastated!!😢 Virginia had a very mild winter last year which is why I thought I could chance it.🤷🏽♀️ Oh, well. Lesson learned. 🌱🪴🌿🪴🌱
I did too and also like the effect. For an experiment I cut a lanky stem off and buried ied up to the foliage in a new pot. It never missed a beat and is growing merrily. I’m a fan.
Now that you’ve ranked them, great time to purge. Pass on the D’s and maybe re evaluate the C’s into a go or stay. Opens up room for things you want to try and reduces your plant workload!
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Thanx, Richard! Very useful troubleshooting handbook.
Stop making me buy plants.
You can always proplift
Haha!!!!!
I know right!!!
I want that red coleus!!!
@@Doctor.Dentistaforever and always
"Every plant in my house" ignores the enormous trailing pothos across his ceiling line. It's just part of his house now.
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Yeah I was waiting for the favorite pothos…. Did I miss it?
That one is now a structural support 👏🏻
Both the money plants look gorgeous, I don’t know anything about what they’re supposed to look like but to me, ‘messy’ looking plants are beautiful, let them be wild!
I can’t believe I am going to watch you rank your plants for an entire hour. Hang on I need popcorn. And GO!
I enjoy this emensely! 😁
Enjoy!
If someone told me 4 yrs ago that id enjoy watching these id have laughed!. I sat cued this video up along with my lunch too!!!
It's a 36 minute long video..
@@funonvancouverislandImma watch it twice
Can't believe you don't like your Chinese Money plant. I got mine half dead and revived it. Right now, it's flourishing next to my window. Yes, it grows leggy, but it's still beautiful.
Now that I am an empty nester I have been obsessed with my houseplants. Your channel is way too interesting and thus I am running out of room with new plants and propagating ones.
Great stuff 👍
I really appreciate a slow growing plant. When I find a good spot and a good pot for it, it can just stay there and we are both happy.
The delightful, rambling way you present your films, showing us all your fabulous babies and chatting about their quirks, is so friendly and laid back ☺ Your house is so pretty and sparkling clean.... which is why I snorted tea down my nose when you mentioned your Venus Flytrap died... No wonder; there cannot be a single fly to be trapped 🤭
Hi,
Ron here in the US. I grow alot of house plants.
I have been taking care of an Oxalis that an Aunt gave me for 25 years. Fantastic plant I have learned some things: Transplant only a FEW tubers into a bigger pot, pointy end up.
Enough for the coverage you want. It is very prolific and will spread on its own.You won't have to transplant again for a few years. Dry the extra then put your excess tubers in a paper bag. They last forever. I start smaller pots to give to friends or sell them
You said you were just coming into spring. Take the scissors to everything growing in that pot. Oxalis is perrenial. It gets scaggly in winter. It will start to regrow in a week or so. Keep them moist. Move it to a sunny location
The more sun and light, the less floppy it is and will have shorter leaf stems. It will tolerate direct Sun, even all day, but you sacrifice having the leaves open until the direct sun moves away.
I'm sure you know the leaves close at night. They also will close during the day if the plant is unhappy or stressed (needs water, etc.and in hot direct sun).
Great channel.
I’ve got a 47 year old croton, which touches the ceiling, more a tree now rather than a house plant. It’s been in many situations, cold, shady full sun and it’s just got on with it.
Cool
My croton hates me
Wow, nice!❤
That Croton looks like an S to me, but I don't know how hard they are to look after. TBH, I was hoping it might just look after me 😀
I love the look of croton, but they always die on me during winter. They seem to hate the dry air from the heater. (I live in the US. It snows here.)
Good to know that I'm not the only one who has a love/hate relationship with some of my plants. Great video!
Thanks!
Nothing beats Devil's Ivy! Sweetest soul, never troublesome. I have one 20 years on with many propagated kin throughout my house ❤
I have a Raven ZZ it was my first plant. Its constantly making new leaves. It's one of my healthiest plants.
My grandma has the most beautiful and big fern I’ve seen in a home and she doesn’t even research what to do for it (she has had it for a couple years and it’s been thriving the whole time)
Thanks for your ranking tour. We all have our personal loves/hates with plants, and I get what you like and don't like. I'd like to comment on the issue of light:
Most 'house' plants are, of course, semi-tropical or tropical plants. One must keep in mind plants that grow in the tropics (that is, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn) do not experience great variation in day length, like plants from temperate zones. What they do experience in Nature is dry/wet seasons. Some will go dormant periodically, and some actually must have a dormant period. So...if you try to grow them in northern latitudes without supplementing the light in the winter, they're going to struggle. If it's a plant that needs to periodically go dormant, you just have to let it do its thing, knowing it will come roaring back come spring.
If you accept the natural growth habits of the plant in question, your life with plants will be much more rewarding. Tradescantias, for example, I think of as the perfect plant for surgeons...cut, cut, cut...(that's the punchline to a joke I won't tell here). If you cut the damned thing back it won't get all scraggly and ugly. That being said, I've got a plain green one that's in a four inch pot and it's run all over a 6'x6' shelving unit, and still looks nice and green. It's not spectacular, but it does add to the jungle look.
I've become convinced the only way to grow truly great philodendrons, monsteras and pothos is with a sphagnum moss pole. They want to climb something like a tree, and they are in many cases using those trees and those big aerial roots to get water and nutrition. I've seen monsteras in Florida climb thirty feet into a live oak tree.
Thanks for all your great videos. Your tip on using aquarium conditioner in your watering to stop 'crispy' leaves works. My spider and calathea now produce lovely green leaves with no potato chips!
💯 correct on trying to grow tropical plants in a new environment! I do plants, hubby- fish...in the midwest! -We have to remind ourselves not to be soooo harsh on ourselves!!!!!
@@Puppies-Plants-Politics I also have to encourage plant lovers not to obsess over 'perfection'. Plants don't freak out over a bad leaf or two... getting to know each one will tell you if it's sick or just doing what plants do.
Thank you 😊
Am getting used to the idea that it's okay to throw Tradescantia cuttings away and not propagate more and more
@@damamae950 Unless you want to fill your house with Trads you have to get rid of them. Too bad they're not edible!
Once i bought 3 "string of..." cuttings from a seller on etsy, all aboit 3 or 4 cms each. Hearts, pearls, turtles. I was a plant newbie at the time and all the cuttings died before they rooted. EXCEPT my brave little string of hearts. Years later and she's still going strong (several metres long, her own offcuts rooting nicely elsewhere too) and she wont stop flowering!
I'm in london so not a super different climate from you. But ive found the cuttings really take root well in a moss/perlite mix, covered with clingfilm (w a couple of small holes for ventilation) and kept moist. An established plant though can handle being underwatered!
Thanks for the entertaining video :)
The only Alocasia which I know that never loses its foliage even in Central European winter under standard home conditions and is very easy to care for while stunningly beautiful is the Alocasia "Red Secret", absolutely gorgeous one!
They are quite common and inexpensive, I got mine at some garden center 3 years ago and it keeps on living its best life while not requiring any attention or "special treatment" like most other Alocasias I tried (and hated/killed...) over the years. Highly recommend! ❤
Thanks for sharing 👍
Ive learned so much thankyou. I was diagnosed with Lymphoma and made a tropical freshwater fish plant room. With a goldfish pond and plants. I killed every alocatia. Thank you for helping me choose plants that i can succeed with
Thanks for watching 😁
A couple years ago, I would have agreed with you on the ZZ, but since I rehabbed one recently, as well as got a Black Raven (that was half rotting in the store which I'm also rehabilitating), I would say that ZZ belongs in B tier. The stalks and leaves add a nice contrast to a collection, and when some of the stalks - like yours - don't grow straight up, the plant looks very whimsical and expressive.
Usually not a fan of tier list videos, but you made it fun to watch!
Thanks!
I can't believe that you featured every single plant you own! So in depth! I am not even halfway through and love it already! ☺
Thanks!
My purple shamrock is about 4 yrs old and is definitely an S. I wrap paper around the whole plant to repot. I pull a few leaves out here and there and she will shoot out a bunch more. Also pull the flowers out when they start to die and it continues to flower. She has had flowers every single day since I got her.
I love my ZZ zanzi, its shiny, beautiful, and grows fast in my house. Perfect for darker corners.
Aww.. syngoniums are lovely! I will have every syngonium in my house! So fun to play with and prop! They make anyone feel like a plant pro!
Another great video! Aglaonema goes straight to S for me. Mine surprised me with flowers a few months ago.
Enjoying you giving grades to beautiful plants 🪴 long videos,seeing all healthy plants,thank you 😊
Thanks
In my experience Fittonias died on me until I put one into a terrarium that I had. I know this is a bit out there but I now keep my Fittonia mother plant in the largest zip lock bags front IKEA. They need crazy amounts of humidity & the zip lock bag was the answer. I also have an other plant that’s much larger in one of the zip lock bags that’s supposed to be used for vacuum sealing a double duvets. Both plants are doing well & condensation forming on the inside of the bags. I open the bags now & again to give them a change of air.
Yes, I put Fittonias in terrariums and they do really well in the warmth and humidity
This is a really helpful video! Thanks for doing all that work. My ZZ plant, which I named Rich after you due to you helping me with the watering advice, is doing really well. I think it's still fairly young (having gotten it at IKEA in Feb) and has continued to grow new leaves. It has a ways to go to look as large as yours, but it's perfect in its little low-light spot for the foreseeable future. 🌿
I have a plant named after him too! Too funny!! 😂❤
Like it!
@@kelsey9384 Ha! 😄
My plants are nowhere near as large and beautiful, but I am trying, thanks to your videos!
You’ve got this ✊
I potted my string of hearts in bonsai potting mix and it grows like crazy. I do have to water often since it's mostly gravel like soil
Hello, this ranking really helped me as I am just starting out and I don't want to struggle with hard to keep plants right off the get go. Thanks so much. Love and Peace.
You bet!
Never knew i wanted this kind of Video but i love it ❤️ Very Inspiring for my next Plant purchase
I have a Philodendron new red which was growing aggressively and out of control, which I got under control with wall mounted3m Command hooks andgarden ties. Its now growing the way I want it to.
I've just moved from a house with a big garden to an apartment with a small balcony and im grieving somewhat. But finding your channel has really lifted my spirits and introduced me to a whole new world of houseplants!! Thank you, Richard!! I brought my favourite Fatsia with me and am trying to acclimatise it to the indoors. Have you ever grown one successfully indoors?
Thanks! Never tried that one
Ooh it's leaves are stunning!! Check them out. Would love to hear how you get on with one.
Lovely collection!!!
Thank you 😊
Mr Sheffield 🌱 I'm not too far away from you in the UK and String of Hearts does pretty well for me. Got it next to a grow light now but used to have it in a North Facing window and it was always growing & blooming. I'd recommend putting it in a normal sized plant pot, as I've noticed quite a lot of people plant them in shallow bowls but, they have a decent sized root system. Just use the taco test on the leaves to see when they need to be watered, which is not too often, and lay off watering big time in the winter as they rot easily 🌱😊🌱
Thanks for the tip
I put mine in a deep planter. Repotted it and it was like digging up potatoes!
The purple pallida or Purple Heart here in the states I got as a cutting from my mom who got it from her mom 6 years ago and now I have lots and lots of them cuz it crawled out of the pot and rooted in the ground outside. I have taken cuttings and now it’s all over my landscape as a ground cover. It dies back in the winter and sprouts back out in the spring here in zone 8
Where do you live that it sprouts back. I'm in Missouri. You must be somewhere warm.
That was fun! You're a brave man; I won't have any Alocasias or Calatheas in my house. I washed my hands of them a long time ago!
I'm also a big fan of Pothos (the one you showed us is a Marble Queen-I have two of them), and I have about six Golden Pothos, as they grow so well and look lovely all lined up in a row on a shelf
My Philodendron Birkin is actually looking fab (so far!), and I agree about the Tiniki; I have 2, and they are beautiful and easy.
One of my absolute favourite plants is my Tradescantia Nanouk - what a stunner - and I have just bought 3 more different types. For impact, my Kentia Palm looks incredible in my living room with an uplight casting stunning shadows on the ceiling in the evening.
PS: I didn't notice your asparagus fern?
I borrowed that one for that video
This was fun to watch! It was quite interesting which ones you picked as your favorites. I tend to lean on plants that give me the LEAST trouble, so MY S list are undoubtedly the ZZ plant, snake plants, rubber tree plants, and pothos plants. Interesting that you didn't feature any common Dracaenas (I have one that is over 40 years old that has been propagated numerous times). The tradescantia plants are an absolutely nightmare for me, lol! Other nightmares have been allocasia or calathea ( you have tremendous patience). Thanks for the video. :)
Thanks for watching 😁
I have a Hindu rope hoya that has barely grown the 2 years I've had it. They are very tolerant of neglect though which I like. :)
I agree with putting echeveria into B class. I have several. Easy to take care of, but meh. I have a fern about the same size as yours. Looks great and takes little care.
Great vid! So informative as well as it teaches a lot about your plants and their behaviors
Some random thoughts:
My Pilea mother plant, I keep it in a bright place where I dont see it often 😂 (and otherwise care for it well).
I do however take out a babyplant every now and then and put it somewhere where I see it often, since the babys look quite cute for a while.
Also if you chop the top off the bald stemmed Pilea, the bottom starts branching out all over, and the top can be propagated into a new non-bare stemmed plant.
They are a bit annoying when they throw a fit, but also have options!
My string of heart seems to like higher humidity, growlight brightness and even constantly moist (not soggy) soil, its doing quite well and some strings are well over 2 meters long. While it still throws a fit every now and then and drops a few leaves, it also flowers most of the time.
I recently started a second one from cuttings… in a growtent (very bright, super high humidity). It is now rooted well and starts to grow out strings.
For the leggy Dieffenbachia… maybe propagate? Or put some cute low bushy plants in front of the leggy stems?
Verrucosum: maybe put more than one plant onto the pole so that it will become more filled out?
Thanks for sharing 👍
the first time I saw your green orange plant, I started looking for one. I found one a couple of weeks ago - I love it! Stunning plant. Good to know about grow lights.
I do love ZZ plants. I have a raven and a regular one too.
I'm so glad to hear your opinion on diffenbachias. I thought it was me, but yours look the same. Thank you for relieving my plant mom guilt.
*I hang my string of hearts in a W window & it's grown down to the windowsill in a couple of months as well as flowers every year. It is rather water hungry for a semi-succulent during the growing season. I care for it the way I do my Lipstick plant but the SOH usually wants more water in the summer where I'm at (PA)
*over summer put your Hoya outside on a covered porch. The UV light + heat/humidity outside help mine bloom
* the "orange green plant" is a Mandarin or Fire Flash Spider Plant. I struggle with mine too but those stems keep preventing me from tossing it. Colorful or patterned stem plants look so good on a higher up shelf/book stand.
* Rhizomeous Begonia for me stay neater. I can't remember the last time I removed a leaf other than to propagate it (once it was acclimated to my house anyway). They stay more compact too so more tuck in around other plant friendly. Would enjoy living next to you P. Santorini for example.
*Calathea & agalonema I struggle with
Awesome tour thank you. You could combine a raven with existing zz to make it more interesting. The first time I saw a zz I was amazed by the shiny leaves and thought it would be easy to look after but I over watered it and it died of root rot but I collected some leaves and a top stem and propagated new plants
Good shout
I have a Hoya which is over 30 years old. It flowers multiple times each year and have found that neglect has kept it small but the flowers are abundant. I haven't feed or watered it much until finding your channel.. I'm feeding and watering it now to see what difference it makes
Soooo mine is about 15 or so old...never bloomed. 😢
I had one before that sat on my staircase window & I both bloomed & was happy. I moved & it just died. I bought another one, put it in the same kind of light situation & it has never flowed at all. I was thinking of giving it some kind of feed but a concerned that I kill it. What a dilemma 🫣
I love my Chinese money plant! The circular explosion of round leaves makes me smile!
Also, because of you, i bought a birkin. Although some of the lower smaller leaves are just green, shes flourishing like crazy! I live in Ontario, Canada, so I'll have to put her under grow lights this winter so she doesnt fully revert to green. Ive got it planted in an aroid mix and she loves it!
Thank you for Sharing beautiful House Plants lovely collections beautiful video
Loved this! And you dont pluck off yellow leaves before showing them. Of course we differ on which ones we've fallen in love with and those rascals we hoped to be friendly but denied us.
Part of the game 👍
I, too, dislike Chinese money plant. I can grow in water but not anymore soil. I gave my daughter the cuttings and they now live in her aquarium! I have the original plant on my porch in full sun, and it has produced more leaves. Of course, my husband waters it everyday. I live in Tennessee and it is very hot this year. I really enjoy you videos. Thank you!😊
Thanks for watching 😁
I’ve recently had a lot of success with my string of hearts plants! I’m in London, so similar conditions to you and after some trial and error I’ve managed to get them growing brilliantly! I have one (a variegated one) on a mantelpiece, trailing over the edge, about 2 meters away from an east facing window. My other two (normal ones) I have on high shelves of my book case, about 3 meters away from a south facing window. I water them about once a month and am constantly having to trim them as a couple of them keep reaching the floor (from two meters up)!
They grow like absolute weeds for me now and although occasionally I’ve had problems with bare looking stems, I just cut it back to before that point and it grows back brilliantly. I use an aquarium water conditioner too, except I use one called prime by seachem. They also seem to like the seaweed baby bio fertiliser although I use it very rarely. They are still an absolute pain to untangle however they do look amazing when they’re happy! One of them is in my zoom background (when I’m working from home) and I’ve got many compliments on it! They are definitely S tier plants for me now, after years of trial and (mostly) error. Definitely worth it in my opinion though, they look amazing when mature, flowing down from a high shelf, especially when they occasionally reward you with little flowers!
String of pearls however… I cannot for the life of me keep them alive!
What a great comment! I absolutely love string of hearts plants but have never had any success.. 🤦🏻♀️ Although I live in Italy so a different climate, your comment inspires me to try again.. I just love the idea of them growing like weeds.. thanks! 👍
Great video. Very helpful. I thought you were going to go though all your plants which have made for a long video but enjoyable one. I bought a few plants for my birthday yesterday. One was a peace lily that is blooming. I asked the lady I bought it from if it will bloom again. But she said it might and gave it extra fertilizer for free. Wonderful 😊 can’t wait for your next video.
Thank you 😊
Great plant tour, thank you 😀🇨🇦
Glad you enjoyed it
I actually like the Pilea (Chinese Money Plant), I got mine from the receptionist at my job. Her's is at work and we're many floors up in a glass building. It's so full and large, but I suspect the lighting has a lot to do with it.
The sound that the leaf made when it was coming off was very cartoony and funny at 2:01
Hi there😌🙌It just shows us how different plants behave in different climates😅
In the U.K. - There are two plants that I really have success with - dieffenbachias and syngoniums. Because I also have an interest in aquascaping I learned that they can both live in a riparian environment (roots submerged and leaves above water). I simply pot them up like any other plant but keep them literally saturated with water. This seems to slow down the loss of lower leaves on dieffenbachias a lot, but if a stem does get leggy, I just cut it down and trim the top part then stuff it in the mud next to it's old stem (both should send out new growth) or, if I want a new plant, root it in water and then pot it. My syngoniums just romp away in their sodden mud and seem very happy. Both plants seem to do well with grow lights as I am in a basement flat, so have little choice!
I totally agree on all the C group,I have the same issues with mine. With the Chinese money plant, I chop the top off and stick it straight into soil it looks much fuller.the purple oxalis is same as yours and every other one that I’ve seen,it’s just it’s growth habit.
Love your Coleus,I’ve been meaning to ask you every time it’s in the background. Great video 💚🪴🌿
Thank you 😊
One of my new favorites is aglaenema . There are so many varieties & kind of low maintenance. Love my pepperonia & it's low maintenance.
Other favs...
shamrocks ( though they seem to like more sun than the tags says ).
Money tree , once I came to realize it likes it's roots cozy. Love the Mandarin orange spider ( think you called it green orange) once I learned how to make it happy .
I love the way you ranked them. But the one i disagree with is the aloe Vera. I have 4 and I love them all.
I love to see how different we all are! ❤ I personally do not care for alocasias or philodendron, but I deeply adore my collection of calatheas! Specifically the orbifolia and the roseopicta, those are my two S-class plants 😊
Not saying I'll be able to keep all of my 6 calatheas alive, but at this point I have started seeing them as long-lasting "flower bouqets" instead of short-lasting house plants, and so it's fine for me if one or two die every year 😅
Also really happy with my chinese money plant, I just cut it off at the bottom once it gets too long and leggy, and enjoy the babies until the circle starts again 😊
I have 5 different kind of crotons and I absolutely love them, they're so colourful. 🥰
I really enjoyed this video, so thanks for all your work on this channel.
Thanks for watching 😁
My peperomia raindrop is thriving in a southern window in my sunroom in sunny California. Unless it is shock, it probably isn’t too much sun. Maybe it got a bit overwatered or repotted too frequently? They hate being repotted and mine has been in the same pot more than a decade. They are an easy plant here because they like the dry, but probably more challenging in your damp climate.
BTW, they are super easy to propagate from a node, a leaf, or even half a leaf, so you can easily make a back up copy or add cuttings to make it bushier. It also bounces back nice from pruning.
I have 2 raven zz plants, one is really dark. I love them.
I agree with you on the zebrina and the oxalis. I love both of them but I have a difficult time getting them to consistently look nice. Yours look great!
Lovely video - I agree with you on most of your rankings, except I do love my gigantic ZZ plant. Completely agree on your assessment of string of hearts - way too fussy. I avoid any “string of” plants.
You should get a philodendron micans - pretty velvety (not showy) leaves , climbs like a pothos and pretty easy to care for.
FYI the correct name for the Tradescantia showen is actually Lisa, and it is a cultivar of Tradescantia mundula. Unfortunately many Tradescantias are mislabeled mainly for commercial purpose.
I never thought about having a coleus as a house plant. Where I live in USA, they grow over 7 feet tall outside, and seed themselves easily!
We are in the USA too and I only buy them for my window boxes for the summer. The greenhouses start to carry them in early Spring for planting outside. Maybe this year I will keep one for the inside.
I’m going to try one inside this year, too! So many lovely colors!
I was just about to take note of that plant to buy for my collection, but think I may not due to your comment. Not keen on having a 7 foot tall plant to care for.
Hi Mr. Sheffield Didn’t quite agree with some of your ratings but enjoyed and watched the whole video 😁. I was curious why you don’t keep more begonias - maculata; angel wing etc. They’re gorgeous and easy to grow and also treat you with lovely little flowers
Not sure. Don’t catch my eye I guess
Thanks for identifying the plants with text. I'm terrible with plant names.
I have a notebook and pen, and pause it when I wanna write the plant I want down!
@@kelsey9384 Great idea Kelsey. He always provides so much good information.
No worries!
Stunning video thank you mr Sheffield ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
@@SheffieldMadePlants my pleasure
That Chinese Money plant is beautiful. Send it to me if you don't want it
OMG that coleus is phenomenal and gives me hope for growing more in the future.
I absolutely love your honest opinion.. I love my plants but I am totally the same way 👍🏽 😅 😅😅😅
I like the Pallida outside in the earth. Then I take cuttings for over winter.
The money plant is so cute!! 😆
My favourite plant is Angel Wing Begonia/ Trout plant....it's beautifully spotted, but does grow a bit leggy.
I agree with most of your grading.
String of hearts is the easiest ever. But it needs LOTS of sunlight. It grows really fast too. And it's very easy to multiply : just cut a bit and plant it directly. No need to water too much, but sunlight is not negociable. Suspend it on the top of your windows, and in a few months you'll get very long strings. Easily goes to 2m long. But these strings will die away in winter without a growth light.
I think your purple shamrock needs a bigger pot. But when mine got scraggly looking, I caught it off even with the pot and it grew back thicker.
Thank you for this! Great video! I LOVE “String of …” plants. Theres something so beautiful about the way they trail. I have two String of Hearts plants but got my first String of Pearls yesterday as a present - I’ve wanted one for so long and so I’m really excited to look after it and learn what it likes :)
Thank you! I had misidentified my new plant. According this video it is a green syngonium. I thought it was some kind of alocasia. Sounds like syngonium will be better plants in the winter months.
Quite a nice collection.going to get a nepenthes. I do not understand the Birkin problem....mine is in aroid soil and gets a huge amount of light. Fertilize every month in Summer.
Me either. My Birkin is in regular houseplant soil in an east facing window and grows great. I don't think it likes too much babying.
Lovely video
Thank you. In regard to the barrel cactus it only flowers towards the end of its life
Oh right!
I've recently put my string of hearts cuttings, after rooting them ever so slightly in water, in leca and they love it. I was surprised that it can be grown in leca with a reservoir, but so far it's not complaining and pushing out new growth.
S Tier for me and my collection would be:
Philodendron Plowmanii (took a while until it adapted to pon but now it's growing so fast)
Monstera Thai Constellation
Alocasia Regal shield (got a 50cm leaf the other day, love it)
Philodendron Billietiae (sturdy, a long boi)
D Tier would be:
Philodendron Burgundy princess (got it as a freebie, that's how bad this thing grows)
Raphidophora decursiva (would be A Tier but it's currently only producing runners after 6 months of nothing)
Monstera Adansonii (the thing always gets Thrips and looses all it's leaves)
Plant your least favorite together for a fuller look before pitching. If compatible, of course.
I enjoyed this, Mr Sheffield. I am largely in agreement with your ratings except maybe the fern. I love them but I am always cleaning up after them. Like they’re not very well house trained…
I hear that!
I love that the marble queen pothos is one of your faves.. I agree with the Chinese Money plant… mine lulled me into a false sense of security. It was huge and then just died for seemingly no reason :/ I’ve added a couple of extra plants to my Wishlist for when I get my current collection down to more manageable numbers
Excellent video! It would be helpful in learning light requirements if you would mention which direction the windows are facing. Easiest plant ever is the Christmas cactus…the less attention I give it the more often it is covered in flowers.
Spending time going through your vids before I grow my plant family.
I absolutely loved this fun video, Mr Sheffield.. 👍You have such a fab collection! Great nepenthes (growing soooo beautifully, I adore it) and that's a stunning red coleus.. 🥰
Your Echeveria looks a bit tall.. (7:08) it's definitely seeking more light.. I do love these succulents (and their flowers are so pretty) but they need to stay flat in rosette form to be more pleasing to the eye.. and that means plenty of sunlight! 🤗 They do better outdoors.. just my opinion..
I have always loved the look of Chinese money plants.. our local bar has a beautiful one.. I took a cutting but had no luck at all.. As for strings of _anything,_ I have no luck either..🤦🏻♀️😆 Great vlog! Thank you, Richard..
Thank you 😊
💕 I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE CHINESE MONEY PLANT!!!! 🪴😍💕
(…also nicknamed: UFO Plant!)💗🛸 👽🪴
I had one last summer. Instead of using soil, I planted it in teeny tiny slate pebbles and let it sit outside on the patio where there was plenty of warmth and sunlight. It THRIVED🤩🌞🪴🤩 in the sun!!!! It only needed watering when the pebbles were dry. You can definitely get away with just filling the watering tray to water it that way. Just be careful not to leave it (or forget it’s outside) if you live in a climate with a winter season. I forgot to pull my plants 🪴 in before the first frost because our autumn felt like summer last year with 70-80 degree heat, so I didn’t feel a rush to move them inside. The first cold snap we had snuck up on me one week before Thanksgiving! Lol, I was devastated!!😢 Virginia had a very mild winter last year which is why I thought I could chance it.🤷🏽♀️ Oh, well. Lesson learned. 🌱🪴🌿🪴🌱
I allowed my Chinese money plant to droop down and now I actually love it. You should let it droop over and see what you think.
I did too and also like the effect. For an experiment I cut a lanky stem off and buried ied up to the foliage in a new pot. It never missed a beat and is growing merrily. I’m a fan.
Love it! So excited for this!
Now that you’ve ranked them, great time to purge. Pass on the D’s and maybe re evaluate the C’s into a go or stay. Opens up room for things you want to try and reduces your plant workload!
I actually love the Chinese money plant you have. I think it looks like it’s from outer space!
Am new to collecting plants an flowers for indoors an outdoors loving ur channel ❤
Awesome! Thank you!